Dive into the shocking rise of global sea surface temperatures! 🌊 Discover how this phenomenon affects our planet and why it ...

June 2024 marked 15 consecutive months of record-breaking global sea surface temperatures. Record ocean heat has contributed to NOAA’s outlook for an above-normal 2024 Atlantic hurricane season .

Researchers have proposed a more accurate way to calculate the global surface air temperature, which suggests we are just three years away from breaching the 1.5°C climate goal ...

Scan a modern sea-surface-temperature map and it looks like a painter spilled warm colors across the planet —except for one ...

Each day since Jan. 31, global daily sea surface temperatures between the coordinates 60°S and 60°N -- which include the majority of the world’s oceans -- have been hitting new all-time highs.

It's no surprise as we've just seen back-to-back record-high temperatures across Earth, stretching back to June 2023 and coinciding with consecutive global sea-surface temperature highs.

Intense marine heat can have devastating consequences for ecosystems with its ripple effects also extending onto land.

At a global level, September 2024 was the second-warmest month on record (after August 2023), with a sea surface monthly mean temperature of 20.87 degrees Celsius. Impact on Marine Wildlife ...

"Average global sea surface temperatures in May 2025 reached 20.79°C (69,42°F), 0.14°C below the record set in May 2024," experts reported.